First-ever study shows e-cigarettes cause damage to gum tissue
A University of Rochester Medical Center study suggests that electronic cigarettes are as equally damaging to gums and teeth as conventional cigarettes. The study, published...
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It’s how you splice it: Scientists discover possible origin of muscle, heart defects
Credit: Giudice Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - Muscular dystrophies, congenital heart muscle defects, and other muscle disorders often arise for reasons...
Next-generation biomaterial being developed to treat bleeding
PHOENIX -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a biomaterial that has potential to protect patients...
Chemical compound holds promise as cancer treatment with fewer side effects
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA A synthetic version of a rare toxin produced by a sea creature appears to hold promise for treating many different types of...
New software continuously scrambles code to foil cyber attacks
As long as humans are writing software, there will be coding mistakes for malicious hackers to exploit. A single bug can open the door to...
Controlling bleeding disorders with fitted hydrogel casts
(Boston) -- Small blood clots called emboli are mostly known for traveling through the vasculature before they lodge and obstruct vessels, impeding blood and oxygen...
UTSW reports highest-resolution model to date of brain receptor behind marijuana’s high
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Nov. 16, 2016 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report the most detailed 3-D structure to date of...
Scripps Florida scientists pinpoint regulator of amphetamine induced motor activity
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - In new findings that could have an impact the...
Astronomers unveil ‘heart’ of Eta Carinae
An international team of astronomers has imaged the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever. Eta Carinae is a colossal binary system that...
RIT researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements with ‘innovative’ algorithm
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA's Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite. Stray light in the thermal infrared sensor, or TIRS, reduces...
New international recognition for professor Federico Rosei
Professor Federico Rosei, who is also the director of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Center, has been elected a member of the World Academy...
Some hog workers developing drug-resistant skin infections
New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests that some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not only carrying livestock-associated, antibiotic-resistant bac..
Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems
Credit: Abigail Swann/University of Washington Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape....
Acoustic buoy now detecting rare & endangered whales in New York Bight
Credit: CREDIT: A.H. Kopelman for CRESLI. New York (November 16, 2016) - An acoustic buoy recently deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and...
Study reveals impacts of climate warming and declining sea ice on Arctic whale migration
Credit: Vicki Beaver, NOAA Declines in the Arctic sea ice are arguably the most dramatic evidence of the effects of current climate warming on ocean...